Patricia M. Shields

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Patricia M. Shields

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#363

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Patricia M. Shields's Degrees

PhD Political Science University of Texas at Austin
Masters Political Science University of Texas at Austin
Bachelors Political Science University of Texas at Austin

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According to Wikipedia, Patricia M. Shields is a Regents' Professor in the Political Science Department at Texas State University. Since 2001 she has been Editor-in-Chief of the international and interdisciplinary journal Armed Forces & Society. She is also a Contributing Editor to Parameters: The US Army War College Quarterly and the Section Editor of the Military and Society section to the Handbook of Military Sciences. Shields is notable for her publications focusing on research methods, civil military relations, gender issues, pragmatism in public administration, peace studies, and the contributions of Jane Addams to public administration and peace theory. She received a BA in Economics from the University of Maryland - College Park, an MA in Economics and a PhD in Public Administration from The Ohio State University.

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A Playbook for Research Methods: Integrating Conceptual Frameworks and Project Management (2013) (477)
Intermediate Theory: The Missing Link in Successful Student Scholarship (2006) (336)
Pragmatism as a Philosophy of Science: A Tool for Public Administration (1998) (262)
The Community of Inquiry (2003) (134)
Reconceiving Academic Instruction for the Children of Poverty. (1990) (79)
Rediscovering the Taproot: Is Classical Pragmatism the Route to Renew Public Administration? (2008) (78)
The status of the teaching profession 2001 (2001) (62)
Pragmatism: Exploring Public Administration's Policy Imprint (1996) (58)
Involving Low-Income Parents in the Schools: A Role for Policy?. (1987) (57)
High Hopes--Few Opportunities: The Status of Elementary Science Education in California. Strengthening Science Education in California. (2011) (54)
The potential of working hypotheses for deductive exploratory research (2020) (52)
The Promise and Limits of School-Based Reform: A National Snapshot. (1997) (45)
Classical Pragmatism Does Not Need an Upgrade (2005) (38)
Better Schooling for the Children of Poverty: Alternatives to Conventional Wisdom. Study of Academic Instruction for Disadvantaged Students. Volume II: Commissioned Papers and Literature Review. (1990) (36)
Democracy and the Social Feminist Ethics of Jane Addams: A Vision for Public Administration (2006) (35)
Out of the Woods (2011) (34)
A Pragmatic Teaching Philosophy (2003) (34)
The Routledge handbook of research methods in military studies (2014) (31)
Teaching and California's Future: The Status of the Teaching Profession 2003. Research Findings and Policy Recommendations. (1999) (31)
Peaceweaving Jane Addams, Positive Peace, and Public Administration (2017) (29)
College Bound in Middle School & High School? How Math Course Sequences Matter. (2012) (27)
Classical Pragmatism (2004) (26)
A New Paradigm for Military Policy: Socioeconomics (1993) (23)
The Dynamics of Positivism in the Study of Public Administration (2015) (22)
Zen and the Art of Higher Education Maintenance: bridging classic and romantic notions of Quality 1 (1999) (21)
Involving Parents in the Schools: Lessons for Policy. (1986) (19)
The Burden of the Draft: The Vietnam Years (1981) (19)
Improving Schools from the Bottom Up: From Effective Schools to Restructuring. Summary Volume. (1995) (18)
Reconciling the Varieties of Pragmatism in Public Administration (2011) (16)
Evaluation of Title I Accountability Systems and School Improvement Efforts (TASSIE): First-Year Findings. Doc # 2004-01. (2004) (16)
Title I Accountability and School Improvement From 2001 to 2004. (2006) (16)
Inequitable Opportunity to Learn: Student Access to Certified and Experienced Teachers. (2020) (15)
Teaching and California's Future: The Status of the Teaching Profession, 2007. Full Report. (2007) (15)
Sex Roles in the Military (2012) (15)
Limits of Negative Peace, Faces of Positive Peace (2017) (14)
Zen and the Art of Higher Education Maintenance : Bridging Classic and Romantic Notions of Quality * (2006) (14)
Solving the teacher shortage (2017) (14)
Wartime Sexual Violence: From Silence to Condemnation of a Weapon of War (2018) (14)
Enlistment During the Vietnam Era and the "Representation" Issue of the All-Volunteer Force (1980) (13)
21st Century Expeditionary Mindset and Core Values: A Review of the Literature (2012) (13)
Applying Pragmatism to Public Budgeting and Financial Management (2008) (13)
Pragmatism, peacekeeping, and the constabulary force (2013) (13)
“Why They Fight” (2006) (11)
Using Pragmatism to Bridge the Gap Between Academe and Practice (2006) (11)
Open Access Digital Repository: Sharing Student Research with the World (2012) (11)
Classical Pragmatism: Roots and Promise for a PA Feminist Theory (2012) (10)
Teaching Quality in California: A New Perspective to Guide Policy. (2008) (10)
Pragmatism and Public Administration: Looking Back, Looking Forward (2016) (9)
Civil‐Military Relations: Changing Frontiers (2006) (9)
The Status of the Teaching Profession, 2005. Full Report. (2005) (9)
When Theory Hits Reality: Standards-Based Reform in Urban Districts. Final Narrative Report. (2001) (9)
Achieving Organizational Flexibility through Ambidexterity (2017) (9)
The Community of Inquiry: Insights for Public Administration from Jane Addams, John Dewey and Charles S. Peirce (2012) (8)
Learning to Lead: Understanding California's Learning System for School and District Leaders. Technical Report. Getting Down to Facts II. (2018) (7)
Using Volunteers in Adult Probation (1983) (7)
Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Statewide Systemic Initiatives (SSI) Program: First Year Report. Volume 1: Technical Report. (1994) (7)
Philosophical Pragmatism and International Relations: Essays for a Bold New World (2013) (7)
Living Democracy: (1998) (7)
Positive Peace—A Necessary Touchstone for Public Administration (2018) (7)
Exploring the Demand for PhDs in Public Affairs and Administration (2015) (7)
Classical Pragmatism, the American Experiment, and Public Administration (2005) (7)
Erratum to: Jane Addams: Progressive Pioneer of Peace, Philosophy, Sociology, Social Work and Public Administration (2017) (7)
Positive Peace: Exploring the Roots and Potential for Public Administration (2016) (7)
Getting Organized: A Pragmatic Tool for Writing Graduate Papers. (2000) (6)
Freud, efficiency and pragmatism (1989) (6)
Peaceweaving (2017) (6)
The art of peer reviewing: Toward an effective developmental process (2019) (6)
The Effects of Fiscal Transparency on Municipal Bond Issuances (2014) (6)
“If Men Were Seeking the Franchise” (1913) (2017) (5)
The Road to High-Quality Early Learning: Lessons From the States (2019) (5)
The Settlement as a Factor in the Labor Movement (1895) (2017) (5)
Introduction to Symposium: Roundtable on the Ethics of Senior Officer Resignation in the United States (2017) (5)
Dynamic Intersection of Military and Society (2020) (5)
Who Is Teaching California's Children? Teaching and California's Future. (2002) (5)
It is a Working Hypothesis: Searching for Truth in a Post-Truth World (part I) (2019) (4)
Bridging the academic-practitioner divide: Findings from a survey of public administration faculty and practitioners (2021) (4)
Women as Military Leaders: Promises and Pitfalls (2012) (4)
Untapped Potential: The Status of Middle School Science Education in California. Strengthening Science Education in California. (2012) (4)
Sunset as Oversight: Establishing Realistic Objectives (1994) (3)
Jane Addams: Peace Activist and Peace Theorist (2017) (3)
Building the Fabric of Peace: Jane Addams and Peaceweaving (2016) (3)
Controlling Local Government Expenditures (2012) (3)
Military Privatization: The Normative/Affective Context (2012) (3)
Extending the Legacy of Morris Janowitz Pragmatism, International Relations and Peacekeeping [Presentation] (2013) (3)
Evaluation of the National Science Foundation's Statewide Systemic Initiatives (SSI) Program. Second-Year Case Studies: Connecticut, Delaware, and Montana. (1995) (3)
Women Pilots and Combat: Attitudes of Male and Female Pilots (2012) (3)
Improving Schools from the Bottom Up: From Effective Schools to Restructuring. Final Report. (1995) (3)
The COVID-19 Enemy is Still Advancing (2020) (2)
Teaching about Local Government and Community. Classroom Tips. (1999) (2)
Mary Livermore: A Legacy of Caring and Cooperative Womanhood in Service to the State (2016) (2)
Jane Addams: Public Philosopher, and Practicing, Feminist Pragmatist (2017) (2)
Reaping the Spoils of Defeat: Labor Market Consequences of Vietnam-era Veterans (1980) (2)
Changing Demographics and the Impact on Accession, Trainability, Motivation, Character and Performance (1996) (2)
Public Pricing: One Answer to the Human Service Fiscal Dilemma (1981) (2)
Evaluating Association Membership at the Local Level: Central Texas Chapter of the American Society for Public Administration (2009) (2)
Jane Addams: Pioneer in American Sociology, Social Work and Public Administration (2017) (2)
Doing Practical Research and Publishing in Military Studies (2014) (2)
Book Review: Gender Camouflage: Women and the U.S. Military (2000) (2)
Pragmatism as a teaching philosophy in the safety sciences: A higher education pedagogy perspective (2020) (2)
Socio-economics: A Paradigm for Military Policy (1991) (2)
Perspectives of violence by attorneys, police and women's shelter directors: Divisive differences and significant similarities (1994) (2)
Tools for Writing Excellent Papers: ASPA Student Summit 2014 (2014) (1)
It is a Working Hypothesis: Searching for Truth in a Post-Truth World (part 2) (2019) (1)
Deweyan Inquiry: From Education Theory to Practice (2010) (1)
Using Price as a Management Tool (2012) (1)
Enhancing the Quality of Student Papers (2004) (1)
LESS IS LESS: FISCAL ISSUES IN HUMAN SERVICES (2016) (1)
Pragmatism (1993) (1)
Assessment and the Self-Study: The Roles of External Constituencies in Mission-Based Accreditation (2002) (1)
A Comment on "Veteran Status, Earnings, and Race: Some Long Term Results" (1980) (1)
Deweyan Inquiry: From Education Theory to Practice (review) (2010) (1)
Parent Involvement in Local Chapter 1 Programs. (1987) (1)
Experiencing Learning Through Simulations and Projects. Classroom Tips. (1996) (1)
EVALUATION OF THE CALIFORNIA SUBJECT MATTER PROJECTS (2005) (1)
Determinants and Consequences of Service in the Armed Forces During the Vietnam Era (1977) (1)
Role of Pragmatism in Shaping Administrative Behavior (2012) (1)
Book Review: Deweyan Inquiry: From Education Theory to Practice (2010) (1)
Statewide Systemic initiatives (2012) (1)
The Revolt Against War (1915) (2017) (1)
Women's Peace Movement (2017) (1)
The Influence of Military Policy on Black Men (1984) (1)
Pragmatism and Public Administration Research Methodology (2018) (1)
Looking Back: How Jane Addams Challenged the Frontiers of Public Administration, Sociology, Social Work, Peace Studies and Philosophy - and Why it Matters Today (2017) (1)
Strategies for Successfully Completing a Dissertation: Lowering Anxiety, Managing a Project, Creating Theory and Thinking about Football (2017) (0)
Strengthening California's Teacher Information System. (2002) (0)
Tolstoy and Gandhi (1931) (2017) (0)
Jane Addams: Democratic Theorist and PeaceWeaver (2015) (0)
The Thirst for Righteousness (1909) (2017) (0)
A Preliminary Analysis of Personnel Officials' Satisfaction with Affirmative Action Policy Implementation in Selected Texas State Agencies (1987) (0)
THE INDEPENDENT EVALUATION OF THE SCIENCE TEACHERS INITIATIVE (CASCITI) (2005) (0)
Attorney Attitudes Towards Law Enforcement's Role in Family Violence Policy (2012) (0)
Jane Addams and the Noble Art of Peaceweaving (2022) (0)
Military Sociology: Past, Present, Future (2013) (0)
Cutting Back by Charging More: What Public Administrators Should Know About the Demand for their Products (1984) (0)
Evaluation of the Dwight D. Eisenhower Mathematics and Science Regional Consortiums Program: First Interim Report, 1996. (1995) (0)
Teaching about Local Government: People and Programs. Classroom Tips. (2000) (0)
Academic Publishing in Military Studies: Insights from an Experienced Editor (2018) (0)
Woman 'On War:' Marie Von Clausewitz's Essential Contribution to Military Philosophy (1993) (0)
How the theory-driven academic can better communicate with the pragmatic military client (2018) (0)
Recovering Jane Addams: Ethics, Social Work, Social Justice and Peace (2017) (0)
A Research Playbook: Tools to Manage the Process While Enhancing Coherence and Creativity (2018) (0)
Book Review: Reinventing the Pentagon: How the New Public Management Can Bring Institutional Renewal (1997) (0)
Exploring Civil-Military Relations: Janowitz, Pragmatism and Peace Support Operations (2011) (0)
Bread Givers (1880) (2017) (0)
Women’s Historic Public Engagement: Finding Public Administration in the Peace and Suffrage Movements (2019) (0)
Publishing in Academic Journals: Some Helpful Tips from an Experienced Editor (2016) (0)
An Introduction to the Life of Jane Addams (2017) (0)
Bibliography of the Works of Jane Addams (2017) (0)
ASPA PhD Summit: Getting Published and Finding Coherence (2014) (0)
Effective Writing: Useful Tools (2018) (0)
Feminism and Peace: Jane Addams's Legacy (2019) (0)
History of Women's Reform Movement (2019) (0)
New Directions for Educating i the Children of Poverty Disadvantaged children (2005) (0)
[2018 Part 2] Understanding Discipline Norms in Terms of Publishing, Peer Review, Open Access, Data, Metrics (2018) (0)
What are effective peer review strategies to use in a middle school communication arts classroom (2011) (0)
Teaching about Local Government: Issues and Social Action. Classroom Tips. (2000) (0)
Goodbye Don't Ask Don't Tell - Hello Women in Combat: The Obama Legacy (2017) (0)
The U.S. Sanitary Commission: Recovering Women's Leadership, Management and Compassion During the Civil War (2020) (0)
Women in the Military: Final Report (1982) (0)
Linking Geography, History, and Current Events. (1999) (0)
Response to: Big Questions Surrounding Gender Equity (2018) (0)
A Modern Devil Baby (1914) (2017) (0)
Recovering Jane Addams: Public Administration Pioneer (2019) (0)
Encouraging Creativity in Applied Research Design (2018) (0)
Peace in the Neighborhood: A Challenge to Policing - Defining Peace (2018) (0)
Making Connections through Social Studies. Classroom Tips. (1996) (0)
High School Reform in Chicago Public Schools : A Snapshot of High School Instruction June 2009 Part Five of a Series of Five Reports (2009) (0)
A Cross-Site Analysis of Research/Intervention Strategies in Three Teacher Education Programs. Applying Research in Teacher Education: Research Utilization in Elementary Teacher Education. (1984) (0)
Part One of a Series of Five Reports High School Reform in Chicago Public Schools : An Overview June 2009 (2009) (0)
The Treatment of Bureaucracy in Texas Government Textbooks (2012) (0)
Book Review: The Pentagon Wars: Reformers Challenge the Old Guari (1995) (0)
The Spirit of Social Service (1920) (2017) (0)
Getting Organized: A Pragmatic Tool for Writing Papers (2012) (0)
Through Disarmament Nations Will Substitute Political for Military Arrangements (1931) (2017) (0)
Jane Addams' Social Ethics (2018) (0)
Attitudes Toward Sunset Review in Texas (1990) (0)
Chapter 2 Support for Chapter 1 Program Improvement. (1991) (0)
Three Philosophies Behind Public Administration's Research Tradition (2012) (0)
Book Review: An Annotated Edition of Alexander James Dallas, An Exposition of the Causes and Character of the War (2012) (0)
Guidance to States on Evaluating the Effectiveness of the Chapter 2 Program. (1989) (0)
Teaching and California's Future: California's Teaching Force, 2008. Key Issues and Trends. (2008) (0)
Federal and State Resources for Students Experiencing Homelessness (2023) (0)
How Afghanistan Influenced the Content of Armed Forces & Society: An Editor’s Reflection (2022) (0)
Promoting Peace: Overcoming the Dominance of Negative Peace - Jane Addams's Peaceweaving (2017) (0)
Strategic Assessment: A Realist‐Oriented Study (2009) (0)
InnovatIons In Warfare & strategy Achieving Organizational Flexibility through Ambidexterity (2017) (0)
Book Review: The Mother of All Hooks: The Story of the U.S. Navy's Tailhook Scandal (1998) (0)
Handbook on Gender and Public Administration (2022) (0)
Address at the International Peace Congress (1922) (2017) (0)
What She Said: How Jane Addams Informs Public Administration (2019) (0)
Book Review: The All-Volunteer Force (1981) (0)
Jane Addams's Peaceweaving: A Feminist Response to Paternalism, Militarism, and World War I (2017) (0)
Ambidextrous Civil Military Relations: Integrating the Two Hands of Peace (2016) (0)
How Jane Addams Ideas of Peace became part of a US Army War College (Parameters) Publication (2018) (0)
First Days at Hull House (1910) (2017) (0)
Book Review: My Story of the War: The Civil War Memoties of the Famous Nurse, Relief Organizer, and Suffragette (1996) (0)
Nutrition Intervention and Public Policy: A Preliminary Analysis of Funding Techniques and Expenditures of State and Local WIC Programs (1986) (0)
Armed Forces and Society: Building Civil-Military Relations Scholarship (2009) (0)
The Practice of Government Finance (2016) (0)
Student Scholarship: A Valuable Asset and Explaining Downloads (2012) (0)
Civil–Military Relations (2015) (0)
MCA and Logit: A Comparison (1981) (0)
Classroom Tips: Women, History, and Citizenship. (1999) (0)
Marilyn Fischer. Jane Addams’s Evolutionary Theorizing: Constructing “Democracy and Social Ethics.” Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2019. Pp. 264. $45.00 (cloth). (2020) (0)
The Determinants of Enlistment in the Armed Forces During the Vietnam Era (1977) (0)
Celebrating Canadian Heritage. Classroom Tips. (1997) (0)
Books in review (1987) (0)
Perspectives on the Afghanistan War: Commentaries on a Misadventure (2023) (0)
Exploring Concepts Across Grade Levels through the Storyline Strategy. Classroom Tips. (1996) (0)
Researching ‘the most dangerous of all sources’: Egodocuments Esmeralda Kleinreesink (2014) (0)
Hiding in Plain Sight: Positive Peace – A Missing, Critical Immeasurable in PA Theory (2016) (0)
“A Modern Lear” (1912) (2017) (0)
The Contested Idea of Peace: A Path for Public Administration through Jane Addams (2015) (0)
Pragmatism and Public Administration Theory: On Christopher Ansell's Pragmatist Democracy (2018) (0)
Resolving Contradictions in Military Operations via Ambidexterity (2020) (0)
The Use of Polygraphs to Screen Potential Employees (1981) (0)
Jane Addams and Public Administration (2022) (0)
Cassandra and Bread Givers: The College Speeches of Jane Addams (2019) (0)
Eisenhower Mathematics and Science State Curriculum Frameworks Projects: Final Evaluation Report. (1997) (0)
Punctuation, Continuity, and Historicity Traversing the In-Between (2013) (0)
“Patriotism and Pacifists in Wartime” (1917) (2017) (0)
Exploring the Working Hypothesis (2019) (0)
Introduction to the Symposium on National Security and Social Science (2022) (0)

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